The Studio Murder Mystery
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Cast & Crew
Frank Tuttle
Doris Hill
Neil Hamilton
Fredric March
Warner Oland
Guy Oliver
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Synopsis
Richard Hardell, a debonair young man who wins a magazine contest sponsored by a motion picture studio, comes to Hollywood. When he is found murdered on a deserted sound stage, the police learn that five people had ample motives and opportunities to commit the crime: Rupert Borka, who was directing Hardell in his first picture, while knowing he was engaged in a flirtation with his own wife; Blanche, Rupert's wife, who discovered his affair with the studio watchman's daughter; Helen MacDonald, the watchman's daughter, who threatened to make him suffer for his false promises of marriage; Ted MacDonald, Helen's brother, who knew of his sister's secret trysts with Hardell; and Helen's father. MacDonald admits knowledge of the guilty party but dies before he can make the disclosure. Helen is convicted on circumstantial evidence; then studio gagman Tony White, who loves Helen, stumbles on a clue, and Borka is revealed as the actual killer.
Director
Frank Tuttle
Cast
Doris Hill
Neil Hamilton
Fredric March
Warner Oland
Guy Oliver
Florence Eldridge
Chester Conklin
Donald Mackenzie
Eugene Pallette
Jack Luden
Gardner James
E. H. Calvert
Lane Chandler
Lawford Davidson
Mary Foy
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